We all spent time in our early days of poker playing trying to learn the order of poker hands. When playing with friends and family, and certainly online, we unquestioningly follow these predetermined rules as it is the standard and accepted system of identifying the winner.The rankings of each hand are based on the probability of it being randomly dealt assuming the cards have been properly shuffled. And this is where one well-known poker player bases his argument that the accepted ranking of hands should be overhauled.Conventional thoughts on poker hand rankings are being confronted by the player, Nic Szeremeta, who is trying to turn things on their head. Nic is widely credited with initiating the poker boom in the UK and is responsible for Channel 4′s poker show, Late Night Poker. In the poker industry, he is an authoritative figure and his call to change the poker rules are making waves.At its most basic, Nic reasons that the rules of poker are fundamentally flawed and that a flush ought to beat quads. This is because statistically and mathematically speaking, a flush occurs less frequently than a four of a kind in a 32 deck of cards. There are simply fewer ways that a flush can occur. In fact it is about 10 percent more difficult to make a flush.In light of this, it is indeed difficult to defend the current system and say that a flush ought to trump a four of a kind. Perhaps the next time you gather around your kitchen table for a friendly game of poker, you might introduce these changes yourself.In the meantime, however, Nic is calling on the regulators – both online poker rooms and in live casinos – to change how poker hands are ranked and in fact pot the push in the other direction. For years, it is claimed, huge sums of money have been awarded to the wrong player and that the principles should now be amended.If this has got you thinking, the full argument has been laid out in poker column of the newspaper, The Independent, and in the Bluff Europe Magazine.

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